The Method's Eastern in the Meditation of Christian Chance Or Threat?

Abstract

Nowadays more and more people are interested in meditation. They see in it a cure for daily stresses and anxieties. Perceiving it as a form of theraphy, at the same time confirms the limitation of therapeutic methods for strictly scientific attitude. The achievements of civilization, enabling them to more frequent contact with other religions, because of their interests become increasingly unchristian form of meditation.This refers primarily to the method of meditation based on the Far East religions: Hinduism and Buddhism and Zen, transcendental meditation and yoga. In many of them Christians have undergone tiring rythm of social life, see the way to achieve emotional balance and inner peace. But their religion and faith in Christ inspire them to ask questions of practical nature: how, in its prayer, meditation can refer to methods of Far East and to what degree can apply this kind of synthesis? The answers to these questions gave of their time Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In a letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on certain aspects of Christian meditation has indicated that the Far East meditation techniques can be used by Christians to cultivate apersonal meditation on the codition of their recognition of the personal nature of human existance and his capacity for personal relationship with God, and the perception of free prayer.